Grant Funding Opportunities: 1/17/2014

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Announcements

NSBRI Industry Forum is now accepting applications for SMARTCAP grants. Through four grant cycles, SMARTCAP 2014 offers small U.S. companies the opportunity to receive non-dilutive project funding and to collaborate with NSBRI and its research partners (including NASA). NSBRI intends to make a single award of $100,000 in each grant cycle. Applications for the next grant cycle are due February 13, 2014.

 

Grant Opportunities

Deadline: 1/31/2014 (LOI)

Agency: Iacocca Family Foundation

Program: Type 1 Diabetes Research

Description: The Iacocca Family Foundation was established in 1984 to fund diabetes research programs and projects that will contribute to a cure for the disease and alleviate complications caused by it.  To that end, the foundation is accepting proposals from investigators for promising research projects. In 2014, the foundation will support projects designed to directly accelerate a cure for type 1 diabetes or inform the understanding of the disease by a related or complementary mechanism of action.

Award Amount: $500,000

Website: www.iacoccafoundation.org/diabetes-research/grant-guidelines

Eligibility:  Investigators in traditional type 1 diabetes research, as well as investigators currently working on other autoimmune diseases, are encouraged to apply, provided that the proposed project focuses directly on type 1diabetes and supports the mission of the foundation.


Deadline: 2/4/2014

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Program: Biomedical Technology Research Center (P41)

Description: This FOA issued by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages grant applications for national Biomedical Technology Research Centers. These Centers conduct research and development on new technologies and new/improved instruments driven by the needs of basic, translational, and clinical researchers. The Centers are charged to make their technologies available, to train members of the research community in the use of the technologies, and to disseminate these technologies and the Centers experimental results broadly. New applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a pre-application in response to PAR-10-224 . The pre-application process provides feedback regarding appropriateness for this program and competitiveness of a potential application. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the P41 grant mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope, PAR-10-224, that allows pre-applications under the X02 mechanism. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received. 

Award Amount: Varies

Website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-021.html

Eligibility:  Institutes of higher education; nonprofits


Deadline: 2/14/2014

Agency: Lowe's Charitable and Education Foundation

Program: 2014 Toolbox for Education

Description: Lowe's Charitable and Education Foundation has announced the opening of its Spring 2014 Toolbox for Education grant cycle. The program supports projects that encourage parental involvement in local schools and build stronger community spirit. Toolbox for Education grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded in support of projects that have a permanent impact on a school community. Grant funds cannot be used to pay for memorials, stipends, salaries, artists in residence, field trips, or scholarships. Only 10 percent of any award can be allocated for outside expenses such as labor, installation, consultation, and delivery. Lowe's will only consider grants for projects that can be completed within a year of receipt of the grant. A Toolbox grant can be used as part of a large-scale project like a playground as long as the grant is used to complete a phase of the project that can be completed within twelve months of the award. The application process will be closed after fifteen hundred applications have been received. Complete application and eligibility guidelines, as well as lists of past grant recipients, are available on the Toolbox for Education Web Site.

Award Amount: $5,000

Website: www.toolboxforeducation.com

Eligibility:  To be eligible for a grant, applicants must be a public K-12 school or nonprofit parent group associated with such a school. Parent groups that are applying (PTO, PTA, etc.) must have an independent EIN and official 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Preschools are not eligible.


Deadline: 2/15/2014

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Description: The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale mechanics approaches in the study of organisms that integrate across molecular, cell, tissue, and organ domains. The influence of in vivo mechanical forces on cell and matrix biology in the histomorphogenesis, maintenance, regeneration, and aging of tissues is an important concern. In addition, the relationships between mechanical behavior and extracellular matrix composition and organization are of interest. Funded projects may include theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches. The program encourages the consideration of diverse living tissues as smart materials that are self-designing. 

Award Amount: $400,000

Website:www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13523&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Eligibility:  Unrestricted


Deadline: 2/15/2014

Agency: Kenneth Rainin Foundation

Program: 2013 Innovator Awards Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research

Description: As part of its mission to find a cure for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation is inviting Letters of Intent for its 2013 Innovator Awards Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The program supports "outside-the-box" research projects that have the potentialto transform the foundation's efforts to diagnose, treat, and/or cure IBD. The program's key criteria for funding consideration include innovation, robust collaboration, scientific merit, and a high potential for success. as the foundation will also consider projects that, due to their innovative nature, may not be eligible for funding from the National Institutes of Health or other more traditional sources.

Award Amount: $100,000

Website:http://krfoundation.org/health/innovator-awards/

Eligibility:  The program is open to tenure-track professors (or the equivalent) at all levels from any scientific discipline and from any nonprofit research institution worldwide. Interdisciplinary collaboration is strongly encouraged.

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